Method of preparing metal for being- manufactured into wire



'T. WALLACE.

. Manufacture ofWire.

No. 3,180. Ra tented July20, 1843.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS TVALLACE, OF DERBY, CONNECTICUT.

METHOD OF PREPARING METAL FOR BEING MANUFACTURED INTO WIRE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 3,180, dated July 20, 1843.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS VVALLAGE, of Derby, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew and Improved Method of Obtaining \Vire from Iron, Steel, Copper, Brass, Gold, Silver, and All the Metals Capable of Being Made into ire; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description.

Instead of rolling the metal into rods or strips as heretofore I cause it to be made into cylinders 01" hoops by casting welding or rolling or a combination of them as the various metals may require and of such din.- ameter breadth thickness and quality as may be convenient. I then With circular shears begin to cut from the edge of the cylinder or hoop of metal a strip or thread of metal of any desired Width and so out in one continuous strip or thread until the Whole cylinder or hoop is cut out. I then act upon this strip or thread of metal by annealing and cleaning and drawing into Wire as if it had been prepared by means heretofore employed at the rolling mills.

I make no claim to any mode of putting the metals into cylinders or hoops nor to the shears nor to any arrangements or contrivances I may have about the shears.

What I claim as'my invention and de sire to secure by Letters Patent is The cutting of a cylinder of metal or hoop of metal into a strip of metal or thread of metal for the purpose of making Wire.

THOMAS WALLACE.

\Vitnesses CI-Is. A'rwool), GEO. KELLOGG, 

